Wilson Cary Nicholas

Wilson Cary Nicholas (31 January 1761-10 October 1820) was a US Senator from Virginia from 5 December 1799 to 22 May 1804 (succeeding Henry Tazewell and preceding Andrew Moore), a member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia's 2nd district from 4 March 1807 to 27 November 1809 (succeeding Thomas M. Randolph, Jr. and preceding David S. Garland), and Governor of Virginia from 1 December 1814 to 1 December 1816 (succeeding James Barbour and preceding James Patton Preston). He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

Biography
Wilson Cary Nicholas was born in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1761, and he served in the Albemarle County militia during the American Revolutionary War. He went on to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1784 to 1789 and from 1794 to 1800, and he was appointed to the US Senate following the death of Henry Tazewell in 1799. He then served in the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1809 and as Governor from 1814 to 1816. Nicholas died in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1820.